[Clipart] Duplicated items / keywords question

[Jonadab the Unsightly One]

Matthew Gates <matthew at porpoisehead.net> writes:

> have all the files in one place (e.g. unsorted), and then build the
> category directories containing only symbolic links?

This is impractical due to technical limitations.  Among other things:

1.  Some filesystems on which the package may be unpacked do not
    support symbolic links.  For instance, iso9660 and vfat
    filesystems (probably the second and third most commonly used
    types of filesystem at this point, respectively) do not support
    them.

2.  Some filesystems on which the package may be unpacked do NOT LIKE
    having lots and lots of files in one big directory; in the case of
    vfat filesystems, for instance, significant slowdowns can occur
    after only a few thousand files.  The OCAL is far too large to be
    all in one directory.

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